It doesn't work in that direction, either. Earth would be the 4th planet, as far as any ancient Babylonians could ever be aware.
Thats not true, the enuma elish describes the planets and the order of their creation. Between Tiamat and the Sun are 3 planets, beyond Taimat (Earth) are 2 pairs and a moon. When Marduk approaches the battle with Tiamat the text says he was clothed with the halo of 10 gods.
If you put every bit of material in the asteroid belt together to make a planet, there's not enough of it.
Thats true, the asteroid belt is not an exploded or failed planet, its the remnants of a collision.
Jupiter's gravitational influence ensured that no substantially-sized body ever could exist there. Ceres is as big as it gets, and it's not very big.
How did Jupiter form faster than planets closer to the sun? According to the theory I heard, Jupiter formed further out and migrated inward while the outer gas giants formed closer and migrated outward. The freeze line is where the first planet of any substance formed first, thats the asteroid belt.
Causing asteroids. Not ALL the asteroids. You know why there's an H in LHB? Why do you think they put it there?
The mechanism for delivering those asteroids did not exist yet... We had surface water long before the LHB, they dont know what we had before that - other than surface water! But I'm glad you've learned what LHB means
Not in the case of an Earth which is just forming. No. Water doesn't stand a chance until the emissions from erupting vulcanoes after the Earth cooled quite a bit threw up enough atmosphere for water to remain on Earth.
Does Europa have the necessary volcanism and atmosphere to produce an ice/water ocean on its surface? You're wrong, if this world formed at the freeze line it was surrounded by volatile gases cleared from the inner solar system. The accretion of Earth occurred within a zone where water vapor was at its thickest. That drag would have produced a planet faster than one twice as far (Jupiter).
As for this Enuma Elish thing, I read about a bunch of gods, but not a lot of creating the universe.
Thats because its talking about our solar system, just like Genesis...
When Pluto is at this magical point of yours, Saturn might be at its closest approach to that point. It might also be halfway around the solar system. Which gives you that range. Only takes basic trig.
The lower range when they're across the solar system aint relevant, there is still a range for when Saturn is above and below the ecliptic. That range is ~23-27. You didn't know this? I trust my math.
No. It should be easy enough to work out why it would be 7.3 and not 8.4
8 + .4
No, he's not referring to actual astronomical knowledge, he's referring to things like Chichen Itza having 9 steps, therefore the Mayans knew there were 9 planets. Of course, if it had 8 steps, that'd be proof the Mayans knew there were 8 planets, and knew that Pluto wasn't really a planet. If it had 10 steps, it'd be proof the Mayans knew there were 10 bodies in the solar system, 8 real planets + sun & moon. If it had 11 steps, it'd be proof they knew of all 9 planets + sun & moon. etc. Once you decide the aliens imparted this knowledge, it's trivial to come up with coincidences that are reasons these ancient civilisations knew all this stuff. I've met schizophrenics whose delusions were more internally consistent & believable.
The 9 steps of Chichen Itza coincides with the 9 Lords of the Night. Its in their cosmology, not just the architecture.
All of them. As I said, it's quite easy to visualise why it must be the case.
The Earth's tilt is 23.5 degrees, aint no planet 23.5 degrees from us - other than asteroids and comets. Saturn's tilt lines up with Pluto and Mercury does not point at Mars and your insults are boring. Cya